Global warming is spurring so much plant growth that some parts of Earth are starting to cool, according to study released Thursday by Ghent University. The study concluded that rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing an increase in plant life, which generally has a moderate cooling impact on the local climate. In warm areas, CO2 emissions […]

Arctic Sea Ice extent is 800,000 km2 higher than it was in 2016. GWPF TV: A Brief History Of Arctic Angst   Sunshine Hours, 25 May 2017

The latest university prank is embarrassing to academia and hilarious for the rest of us. Philosophy professor Peter Boghossian and mathematician Dr James Lindsay made up a learned paper on the “conceptual penis” as a “gender-performative, highly fluid social construct” that is “the conceptual driver behind much of climate change”, stuffed it full of random […]

The Climate Prediction Center has backed off its forecast for a weak or moderate El Nino this winter. The NOAA forecast is now for neutral conditions: the infamous El Nothing. At this time of the year, it’s understandable as these predictions often change and here’s why. We’re in the so-called “Spring Predictability Barrier.” In spring, […]

Scientists are being gagged from speaking to the public by a heavy-handed government media blackout before the general election, according to leading research institutions. Civil servants have for more than a century been barred from talking to the press in the six weeks before polling day, a practice known as purdah that is meant to […]

When Bret Stephens, former columnist at the Wall Street Journal before joining the New York Times, wrote his inaugural column on April 28th, he broke the Internet. His argument that global warming and the human influence on it are real and undisputable, but that many other facets of the climate change debate are “a matter of […]

Stephen Hawking and 32 of his fellow scientists have written an angry letter responding to a recent Scientific American article about how the universe began. In it, they declare their “categorical disagreement” with several of the statements made, and explain why the theory of inflation is still one of the best models for the origin […]

NOAA has downgraded the probability of an El Nino later this year to 46% from 51% in its April forecast and 53% in March. ENSO-neutral persisted during April, with near-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) observed across the central equatorial Pacific and above-average SSTs in the eastern Pacific [Fig. 1]. The latest weekly Niño index values […]